Grace DeGraaf
gracedegraaf.bsky.social
Grace DeGraaf
@gracedegraaf.bsky.social
editor at Business Insider
How many jobs have turned you down?
How many times has a potential love interest rejected or ghosted you?
How many colleges told you 'no'?
The younger you are, the higher your rejection 'body count' probably is. For Gen Z, that rejection has shaped their entire lives. 👇
March 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Biweekly reminder that we need far more resources to respond to climate emergencies.
I worked with @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social on a piece about the severe shortage of firefighters and people trained to set fires that keep wildfires in check.
www.businessinsider.com/america-wild...
Burn, baby, burn: why we need more people to start fires
Forest fires are devastating America. I'm helping to start more of them.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Grace DeGraaf
For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways
Have We Learned Nothing? | David Klion
There’s a pervasive censoriousness right now—conservatives denouncing liberals, liberals denouncing leftists, leftists denouncing other leftists—that’s immediately familiar from the days and w...
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October 11, 2023 at 9:57 PM
Reposted by Grace DeGraaf
Great news — social media is falling apart

www.businessinsider.com/social-media...
October 5, 2023 at 3:33 AM
A fitting first post: @phonesoldier.bsky.social captures the weirdness of social media right now. "I have never before found myself in no man's land."

But Shubham is optimistic. As big platforms are replaced by smaller networks like Bluesky, we could see a better future for social media.
Great news — social media is falling apart
I don't know where to post; there are too many social media platforms, and the old giants are dying. But a fragmented internet could be better.
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October 3, 2023 at 2:51 PM